Win8 MC on a tablet
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wayner
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Win8 MC on a tablet
Anyone have any view on whether tablets will get Win8MC? If so will we see a form of Softsled to allow you to view LiveTV on your tablet - this is one way of one-upping Apple!
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adam1991
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Remote Potato already works on tablets...why wait for Microsoft?
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Rob Black
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wayner wrote:Anyone have any view on whether tablets will get Win8MC? If so will we see a form of Softsled to allow you to view LiveTV on your tablet - this is one way of one-upping Apple!
That's a awesome idea but Microsoft doesn't care about enthusiast
Cant we do this already with a HD Homerun Prime?
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wayner
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That assumes that one can run Media Center on a tablet and that you are on your LAN. This should also work for a HDHR for OTA broadcasts. The problem is that you have to sustain a 19Mbps network connection to your tablet. Given that tables are so mobile it doesn't really make sense to connect them to tuners that are fixed on your LAN. That's why I think MS should move to more of a client-server architecture with MC. Have one PC that acts as the media server and let everything else be clients. They went halfway with WHS but they never allowed you to put tuners in WHS, nor could you have PC clients. But they seem to have lost interest in WHS as well as WMC.